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Jack Allday, inaugural Athletic Director for UNT Dallas, died July 16 and his memorial service is July 24 at Sparkman Hillcrest in Dallas.

Letters to the Editor More from Homepage Opinion Letters to the Editor - Three cheers for a story on Native Americans, a column on Christmas in Vietnam, nursing home workers Readers appreciate the story on Native Americans in North Texas, loved the column on spending Christmas in Vietnam and report on how a nonprofit helped nursing home workers. Eli Hickman, 40, of Choctaw/Navajo people, plays a Native American stick ball game translated to "Little Brother of War" during a community awareness event hosted by American Indian Heritage Day in Texas, Sept. 05, 2020 at the Dallas Indian Mission Un...

Focus Daily News One of my longtime heroes, jazz pianist extraordinaire Phyllis Emert, died at her home in Rockport Oct. 27. Not from Covid-19 like so many in this plague-ridden year of 2020, but from a stroke she suffered last March. The stroke that stripped Phyllis of her ability to play the piano, an instrument that had been her closest companion since childhood, eventually took her life. Because of all the restrictions in place during this Covid-19 era, her family and friends from across the country weren’t able to attend a service or finalize an obituary for someone we all admired and ...